R.P. Burford

Materials Science · Physical Sciences

30h-index3.4kcitations160works2.02yr avg
OpenAlex↗ORCID↗Google Scholar↗

Accepting Students?

No reports yet. Know if this professor is taking students?

Research Topics

Polymer Nanocomposites and Properties(39), Polymer crystallization and properties(35), biodegradable polymer synthesis and properties(17), Conducting polymers and applications(16), Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterization(15)

Publications160 total

Annual Report 2024
iC3 Report Series·2025Open Access
The potential for glacial flour to impact soil fertility, crop yield and nutrition in mountain regions
iScience·2024· 4 citedOpen Access
High operating temperature (HOT) midwave infrared (MWIR) 6 µm pitch camera core performance and maturity
2022· 2 cited
Polymers: a historical perspective
Journal and proceedings of the Royal Society of New South Wales·2019· 4 citedOpen Access
Simultaneous ROMP and titania sol–gel reactions and nanodispersed functional organic–inorganic composite hybrid materials
Journal of Materials Chemistry C·2014· 9 cited
<scp>ROMP</scp> synthesis of novel thermo‐, p<scp>H</scp>‐, and salt‐responsive (co)polymers containing the morpholino functional group
Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry·2014· 7 cited
Combining Ring‐Opening Metathesis Polymerization and Thiol‐Ene Coupling Chemistries: Facile Access to Novel Functional Linear and Nonlinear Macromolecules
Macromolecular Rapid Communications·2014· 32 cited
ROMP (co)polymers with pendent alkyne side groups: post-polymerization modification employing thiol–yne and CuAAC coupling chemistries
Polymer Chemistry·2014· 20 cited
Functional α,ω-dienes via thiol-Michael chemistry: synthesis, oxidative protection, acyclic diene metathesis (ADMET) polymerization and radical thiol–ene modification
Polymer Chemistry·2014· 20 cited
RAFT dispersion polymerization of 3-phenylpropyl methacrylate with poly[2-(dimethylamino)ethyl methacrylate] macro-CTAs in ethanol and associated thermoreversible polymorphism
Soft Matter·2014· 88 cited
Thiol‐Michael coupling and ring‐opening metathesis polymerization: facile access to functional <i>exo</i>‐7‐oxanorbornene dendron macromonomers
Polymer International·2013· 11 citedOpen Access
Nucleophilic thiol-Michael chemistry and hyperbranched (co)polymers: synthesis and ring-opening metathesis (co)polymerization of novel difunctional exo-7-oxanorbornenes with in situ inimer formation
Polymer Chemistry·2013· 29 cited
Post‐functionalization of a ROMP polymer backbone via radical thiol‐ene coupling chemistry
Journal of Polymer Science Part A Polymer Chemistry·2012· 52 citedOpen Access
Toughening of unmodified polyvinylchloride through the addition of nanoparticulate calcium carbonate and titanate coupling agent
Journal of Applied Polymer Science·2012· 36 cited
Highly functional polymers via romp and 'click' post-modification
Chemeca 2012: Quality of life through chemical engineering: 23-26 September 2012, Wellington, New Zealand·2012
Thiol-Michael coupling chemistry: facile access to a library of functional exo-7-oxanorbornenes and their ring-opening metathesis (co)polymerization
Polymer Chemistry·2012· 30 cited
Effects of atomic layer deposited thin films on dye sensitized solar cell performance
Journal of Vacuum Science & Technology A Vacuum Surfaces and Films·2011· 9 cited
In-situ preparation of poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)-titania hybrids using γ-radiation
Polymer·2011· 11 cited
PVC-CaCO3 Nanocomposites produced by an in-situ coupling with titanate coupling agent using twin-screw extruder
2011· 1 cited
Fatigue and fracture in PVC/CaCo3 nanocomposites
IIUM Press eBooks·2011
page 1 of 8Next →

Frequent Co-authors

Andrew B. Lowe(7), Jaleh Mansouri(6), Johannes A. van Hensbergen(5), Maria Skyllas‐Kazacos(5), Anthony G. Fane(4), Yi‐Bing Cheng(4), Hamid Mirzadeh(3), Ali Asghar Katbab(3), Geoffrey M. Spinks(3), Gordon G. Wallace(3), Meina Liu(3), L.G. Hanu(2), I. Kemal(2), Alan J. Whittle(2), T. Vodenitcharova(2), Mark Hoffman(2), Bianting Sun(2), J. J. Jones(2), Chao Yao(2), C.J.D. Fell(2)